Match lighter than late invention. Lighter was invented in the 16th century, the invention of matches in the 19th century.
The past is generally believed that the lighter a drawn first appeared in the year 1505 in Nuremberg, Germany.
The working principle of safety matches: Head: oxidizing agent (KClO3, MnO2), combustibles (e.g., sulfur, etc.), a binder. Matchbox side: red phosphorus, antimony trisulfide, adhesive.
In 1826, Walker in England invented the "lucifer match", and the foreign fire and the modern match was born. In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Match Girl, the burning ma...